The IEEE Computer Society Special Technical Community on MultiCore (STCMC) aims at promoting research, development, education, and standard activities related to multicore and manycore technologies by providing places for discussion to communities from academia, industry, and government.

Activities will include leader summits, international conferences, workshops, online lectures, online magazines and transactions, and working with standard committees.

The STC on MultiCore tries to fuse the multicore hardware, software, and application communities of the embedded fields, including

smart phones

tablets

cameras

TV broadcasts

movies

games

medical systems

automobiles

airplanes and so on.

These embedded fields may be part of the personal computer and server fields, such as home servers, cloud servers and up to the exa-scale supercomputers, and used for basic sciences, devices, natural disaster simulations, medical computations, space developments, financial engineering and so on through common objectives for high performance, low power, reliability, low software development costs and periods.

This STC has just started the above activities. Many kinds of proposals for the above objectives from the communities are welcome. Please join and create the MultiCore STC together.

The 2018 Collaborative Workshop on Model-based Design of Signal and Information Processing Systems has been organized in Cooperation with IEEE CS Multicore STC. COWOMO is a Collaborative Workshop that aims at gathering researchers on all types of model-based system design. Since the early 2000s, initiatives are flourishing that automate design steps using model-based engineering, actor-oriented design, design space exploration, etc. These initiatives share a common concern of focusing on model semantics rather than on language syntaxes. The first edition took place at INSA in Rennes, France on June 7-8 2018. The 2-day program is organised by the IETR VAADER team together with the GdR SOC2 research network and the CERBERO H2020 project.

Place: Green Computing Systems Research and Development Center, Waseda University

Participant fee: None

Sponsors: Waseda University international collaboration research in MEXT SGU Embodiment

Informatics Project and Waseda University Advanced Multicore Research Institute

Cooperated by: IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter

IEEE Computer Society Multicore STC

IEEE Computer Society Dataflow STC

Industry Sponsor: Fujitsu Limited

Motivation of the workshop

High-performance computers and big-data systems are tied inextricably to the broader computing ecosystem and its designs and markets. However, during the past decade the eco-systems (the programming models, the system software stack, the software tools, etc.) of high-performance computing and big data appear to have been significantly diverged. Such divergence also presents serious challenges to computing architecture and hardware eco-system as well. Such situation has raised significant concerns: many felt that further divergence may be detrimental to both. In particular, both HPC and big-data systems are also facing challenges from the innovations in AI and computational machine learning methods that must be efficiently and securely handled by both.

Workshop goal

To address these concerns we must study the related open R&D problems that are shared by both HPC and Big-Data systems. The technical topics of this workshop have a system focus on the challenges and opportunities from relevant core technology and applications including novel methods from AI and machine learning. The theme goes beyond supercomputing performance issues and includes talks on the challenges and opportunities from demand of global green computing and security needs -- in ways that distinguish them from most other scientific instruments. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to discuss open problems and potential solutions together under the same roof that will have far-reaching impact to future HPC and Big-Data systems, and beyond.

We recognize that the challenges are real and the stake is high for global community. And it is far beyond the borders of nations and continents, and we should strongly encourage international participation. We also recognize that besides the traditional leadership in the HPC field (US, EU, Japan), the world has witnessed rapid new advance in other regions such as in Asia: China, India, South Korea, Taiwan to name a few. We hope that this workshop will break new ground on international collaborations inspiring future global exchanges and coordination between the emerging centers in Asia and the established centers in US and Europe.

IEEE Computer Society Multicore STC will make a video lecture course for “Multicore Compiler” with World Leading Researchers representing each compiler technology in Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on September 6 and 7. The details on the lectures are available below or here.

The "Multicore Compiler" lecture videos will be available from the IEEE Computer Socieity early next year.

A limited number of the seats for the lectures for free are available for Registered Multicore STC members who wish to participate the video making as audience to make questions to improve the content quality. If you are interested in the participation, please join the STC member from this page and send e-mail directly